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New comment by ropintus in "Claude Opus 4.8"

ropintus — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:04:50 +0000

Opus 4.7 was acting extremely stupid today. Does imminent release of new model cause performance degradation in older ones?

New comment by ropintus in "Minions: Stripe’s one-shot, end-to-end coding agents"

ropintus — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 17:16:52 +0000

Isn't all content generated by generative models already in public domain. Having something in the public domain doesn't force you to release it.

New comment by ropintus in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

ropintus — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 17:05:22 +0000

Care to explain how chip makers can influence the inference outcome of LLMs?

New comment by ropintus in "The Rise and (Eventual) Fall of the SIM Card"

ropintus — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 18:13:46 +0000

When I mention that my phone "broke," I mean that my SIM cards stopped responding completely. I couldn't use it to access the internet or make/receive calls and messages. I concluded that the issue was with my mobile phone because I was using a physical SIM card alongside my eSIM, and the physical SIM also stopped working simultaneously. However, when I transferred my physical SIM to a new device, it started working again.

New comment by ropintus in "The Rise and (Eventual) Fall of the SIM Card"

ropintus — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 18:07:54 +0000

All my 2FA authentications were linked to this SIM card, including all my internet banking services and other payment systems. Fortunately, I had some money set aside for emergencies. I also utilized this mobile number for various online services and relied on it as my primary method of communication.

New comment by ropintus in "The Rise and (Eventual) Fall of the SIM Card"

ropintus — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 17:29:12 +0000

My phone broke down a few weeks ago, along with the eSIM inside it. The eSIM was very important to me because I used it for everything. If it had been a physical SIM card, I could have simply bought a new phone and moved the SIM card to it. This was a painful lesson, and I have decided not to use eSIM again.

New comment by ropintus in "Ask Microsoft: Are you using our personal data to train AI?"

ropintus — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 10:48:38 +0000

> All companies have to do is abide the local rules set by regulations

The point being that there are not enough regulations.

One feature that I wish exist is the option to completely erase your account on a particular website along with the data they have collected from you (there can a waiting time of few months before they erase it from their servers). This feature can only be bought out by government regulation because most websites don't have the incentive.

New comment by ropintus in "Ask Microsoft: Are you using our personal data to train AI?"

ropintus — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 08:31:27 +0000

I think he meant that instead of each company creating their own ToS, the government should set the standard or limitations on what a company can do.

> Laws trump Terms of service/agreements and contracts of any kind.

Web is not regulated by the government.

New comment by ropintus in "New AI classifier for indicating AI-written text"

ropintus — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 21:43:27 +0000

It writes better than me (I am an ESL) in writing, and that's enough reason for me to use it.

It might not be better than Tolkien, but so what, 99.99% people are also not better than Tolkien and ChatGPT can add value to the life of these people.

New comment by ropintus in "Nim and Go programs identified by Carbon Black as malware on Windows"

ropintus — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 16:05:14 +0000

Unfortunately, Linux will never gain any meaningful market share in the desktop market. Every Linux distro is hostile to their users in some way. I am saying this as a person who actively dislikes windows. Over the years I have tried many Linux distro and none of them is good enough. 1. The Ubuntu fails to wake after sleep (none of the online solution worked for me) 2. I installed openSUSE, but I tried to browse their forums for an issue, I learned that their forum is blocked in my country. Went back to Ubuntu in a few hours. 3. Fedora was very good for a time, wine worked without any tinkering, but the latest update to 37 made my system very slow. Flatpak was not working. It also had issues working with Nvidia drivers. 4. Even tried Arch Linux (you can guess, how that went).

On the other hand, Microsoft is doing everything to appease their users. The Excel software have a bug to maintain backward compatibility. I won't recommend any Windows users to switch to Linux.